US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on Oct. 21 for "Method and device for preventing a subject vehicle from driving into a vehicle ahead, as well as vehicle and electronic processing unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,950, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method and device for preventing a subject vehicle from driving into a vehicle ahead, as well as vehicle and electronic processing unit" was invented by Wei Hu (Garbsen, Germany), Tim Koenings (Tettnang, Germany) and Richard Matthaei (Hameln, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing a subject vehicle from driving into a vehicle ahead includes equipping the subject vehicle with at least one brake system, a drive system and a driver assistance system with an emergency braking function. The method also includes issuing a haptic ...